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discoverer and first recorder for Yorkshire of that rare 

 and somewhat erratic shell, Limnea glutinosa (now 

 Amphipeplea glutinosa). His /tortus siccus of East 

 Yorkshire wild plants, all well preserved and mounted, 

 numbers over 800 specimens. Even amongst the vertebrate 

 animals few are better informed. With the grass snake, so 

 common in Holderness, as well as the adder, on most sandy, 

 heathy commons, Boult is a perfect " sapengro " {vide G. 

 Borrow's " Lavengro.") 



Further, it must not be supposed that there is the slightest 

 element of idleness or disinclination for activity in the 

 entomologist stonemason. His fellow-workmen, as well as 

 observers unknown to himself, tell us a far different story. 

 It is needful to touch upon this aspect, for one has heard the 

 village worthy and naturalist sometimes dubbed with oppro- 

 brious epithets suggesting the idle character. An instance 

 of our friend's activity and untiring energy may be given as 

 evidence. It is one of many visits that he has paid to Spurn, 

 which, for some things, is a favourite resort of naturalists. 

 A Saturday morning's work at the ordinary avocation, and 

 often involving much walking ; train to Patrington, thence 

 on foot to Spurn — 13 miles — "sugaring" all night on the 

 sandy strip of land forming the peninsula, and ending in 

 the well-known Spurn Head, a walk back next morning to 

 Patrington or Withernsea, and then home by the first train, 

 is a favourite and typical piece of Boultian pastime, and not 

 at all a bad sample for one approaching three-score years of 

 age. Even during the present year (1905) one has frequently 

 felt that there need be no fear of the rambling party missing 

 a train if the nimble little entomologist is there to set the pace, 

 as he usually is, although stouter and more inert members 

 of the rambling contingent may feel somewhat punished in 

 " wind and limb" in making the necessary effort to follow 

 their leader. 



One would need the pen of a Samuel Smiles or William 

 Jolly in describing the Scottish Naturalists' heroes — R. Dick, 

 T. Edwards or John Duncan — to do full justice to our East 

 Yorkshire Naturalist, J. W. Boult. But what fails in a 

 letterpress description may be made up by a glance at the 

 accompanying excellent and eminently characteristic portrait. 



May that kindly, cheerful, and observant eye still gaze 

 sympathetically on the green fields of East Yorkshire and 

 their plant and insect denizens many years hence, as it does 

 now, is the hopeful and earnest wish of James Wm. Boult's 

 fellow members and natural history associates. 



PRESENTED 

 *S MAR.1BU6 



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